Word: alarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD received report of a fire in Baker Hall on the Harvard Business School campus. After HUPD officers and fire rescue units had been dispatched to the scene, it was discovered that there was no fire and the alarm was caused by burnt popcorn...
Upstairs in the science wing, science teacher Dick Will thought, "There go those chemistry people blowing things up again." But when the fire alarm rang, Will knew it was more than students at work. A group of his kids went down the hall to investigate and came back yelling and screaming, "They're shooting!" He herded his charges back to the corner of the room, shut off the lights and started turning over chairs and desks and piling them up against the doors...
...quickly, and they had the preparatory advantages of being insiders. Any of the hundreds of backpacks littering the hallways could have been booby-trapped with explosives; the choir room or the janitor's closet could have been wired to blow. With explosions filling the air with smoke and the alarm bells filling officers' ears (arriving SWAT officers tried to get an assistant principal to turn off the alarms, but she was so rattled she couldn't remember the code) caution was paramount -- and yet strategy was nearly impossible...
...also headed to town Thursday: Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin will meet Milosevic after consultations in Germany and Italy, hoping to generate momentum toward a negotiated settlement. The air war continues, meanwhile. One missile appears to have strayed into a suburb of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which caused considerable alarm in a country seeking NATO membership. And on the Yugoslavian home front, President Milosevic sacked Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic from his cabinet after Draskovic publicly urged acceptance of a foreign peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Draskovic may have been a lone voice in the cabinet, but he has previously...
Harvard, wired to the max, is faced with a pressing decision upon every visit to RadioShack. In a battle for space, the Harvard-provided two-outlets-per-room can't accommodate our--very essential--electronic pencil sharpeners, desk lamps, alarm clocks, stereos, computers and automated toothbrushes. But just how trustworthy is the electric flow in our classic abodes? Will our prized possessions...